1 dead in vehicle-to-vehicle shooting in downtown LA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — One person was killed and two others injured in a gang-related vehicle-to-vehicle shooting in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, authorities said.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the shooting occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the area of ​​Maple Avenue and 12th Street.

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The victims were in a vehicle stopped at a traffic light when another vehicle stopped and the gunman appeared from the sunroof, police said. He fired several shots and the suspect’s vehicle drove away. Police did not have a description of the vehicle.

Paramedics took a man between the ages of 17 and 20 to a hospital, where he died of gunshot wounds. The second victim, a man in his 20s, was in critical condition. The third victim, an 18-year-old woman, was in stable condition.

Further information was not initially available.

It was the second fatal shooting involving victims in a vehicle in Los Angeles in less than 24 hours. At about 2 p.m. Saturday, two men were shot outside 1122 Browning Blvd., about a block from USC. The victims were sitting in a silver sedan when a man, believed to be about 35 years old, approached them, fired several shots at them and then fled in an older-model white four-door Toyota sedan, police said.

There was no immediate indication that the two attacks were related.

Anyone with information about Sunday’s shooting is asked to call the LAPD Homicide Unit after hours or on weekends at 213-996-4142 or 877-527-3247. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or go directly to www.lacrimestoppers.org.

— City News Service